There have been multiple accounts created with the sole purpose of posting advertisement posts or replies containing unsolicited advertising.

Accounts which solely post advertisements, or persistently post them may be terminated.

Elon Musk accused of spreading lies over doctored Kamala Harris video

Doctored campaign video featuring US vice-president reposted by Tesla chief executive watched 128m times

Kamala Harris’s election campaign has accused Elon Musk of spreading “manipulated lies” after the Tesla chief executive posted a doctored video featuring the vice-president on his X account.

Musk reposted a manipulated Harris campaign video on Friday evening in which a fake Harris voiceover says: “I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity hire,” and that anyone who criticises her is “both sexist and racist”.

The video has been viewed 128m times on Musk’s account after the world’s richest man posted it with the words “this is amazing” followed by a laughing emoji. Musk owns X, which he rebranded from Twitter last year.

Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat senator, accused Musk of violating the platform’s guidelines. According to X’s synthetic and manipulated media policy, users are barred from sharing “synthetic, manipulated, or out-of-context media that may deceive or confuse people and lead to harm” although allowances are made for satire provided it does not “cause significant confusion about the authenticity of the media”.

MediaBiasFactChecker Bot ,

The Guardian Media Bias Fact Check Credibility: [Medium] (Click to view Full Report)### The Guardian is rated with Medium Creditability by Media Bias Fact Check. > Bias: Left-Center
> Factual Reporting: Mixed
> Country: United Kingdom
> Full Report: mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/
Check the bias and credibility of this article on Ground.News:

Media Bias Fact Check is a fact-checking website that rates the bias and credibility of news sources. They are known for their comprehensive and detailed reports.

Thanks to Media Bias Fact Check for their access to the API.
Please consider supporting them by donating.

Beep boop. This action was performed automatically. If you dont like me then please block me.💔
If you have any questions or comments about me, you can make a post to LW Support lemmy community.

givesomefucks ,

The Democratic governor of California, Gavin Newsom, posted on X on Sunday evening that the manipulated Harris video should be “illegal” and that he would soon sign a bill banning such media, in apparent reference to a proposal supported by California lawmakers to ban “materially deceptive” election deepfakes.

I don’t know why they’re still on Twitter

If everyone except the right-wing trolls leave, then the whole platform dies quickly.

FelixCress ,

I don’t know why they’re still on Twitter

Presumably lack of viable mainstream alternative. Looking at Musk management there won’t be a Twitter in a few years though.

Sanctus ,
@Sanctus@lemmy.world avatar

Well an alternative won’t appear as long as people are still sheltering in the corpse of Twitter. I think Mastadon and Blue Sky together will end up holding that torch.

FelixCress ,

Well an alternative won’t appear as long as people are still sheltering in the corpse of Twitter

I am not disagreeing with you - I am not using twitter for ages, even before Musk due to their stance on the genocide of Palestinians. I can however see why the politicians do.

solsangraal ,

i long for the day i never hear about musk or twitter ever again

Kraven_the_Hunter ,

I feel like being witnessed posting from his own personal account with no remorse or claim of account hijacking warrants a bit more of a strongly worded statement than merely “accused”.

RestrictedAccount ,

Why do we have to say “accused” when he did it in public?

NegativeInf ,

Because he’s a fragile, litigious, snowflake of a billionaire that cannot even contemplate that anything he does is wrong, let alone illegal.

paw ,

lemmy.ml/post/18539657

In the context of him sharing a fake video. 🤦‍♀️

rageagainstmachines ,

Elon? Lying? For his own benefit? No way

N0body ,

In his defense, Elon both owns the platform and is a giant manbaby throwing a neverending tantrum at even the thought of rules applying to him.

teamevil ,

No shit…he called a guy trying to save folks in a cave a pedo because his ego was offended.

skizzles ,

So why can’t we call this what it is.

An attempt at election interference and throw his ass in prison for treason. For such a high profile person it should be considered no less.

242 ,

“I was selected because I am the ultimate diversity hire,”

In truth it’s lame ass white dudes who are the kids of rich men who benefit from the system and are handed positions way above their level. Black women have to work their asses off to even get their foot in the door. This “diversity hire” narrative is massive projection. Musk was born on third base and got walked in for the score.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • [email protected]
  • random
  • lifeLocal
  • goranko
  • All magazines
    •